Among my vocational activities, I like to identify myself primarily as a designer. I enjoy designing beautiful interfaces and engaging activties. I donot have any formal training in design. It has been my continuous pursuit to enhance my design skills. As a part of my learning process, I look forward to working with good designers.

I designed learning games and platforms for my PhD work titled Modes and Mechanism of game-like Interventions in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Designing learning games has dual goals of creating engaging experiences and also delivering learning goals. The two goals are not always coherent and balancing these two is a part of the design constraints. Also, I was a single person designing and building these games. Those composite goals and resource limitations gave me my approach to design:

"Design within Constraints"

While constraints are always inherent in design process, this approach of conscious accomodation of constraints has allowed me to interpret design and creativity from a practical lens. This came handy to me when I joined OLE Nepal, a non-profit working for public education of Nepal. I worked in an inter-disciplinary team of graphic designers, content writers and software engineers to create educational software and mini-games for the children in public schools of Nepal.

Learning activities and mini-games from OLE Nepal



Samples of my work when I worked as a graphics designer (2007-2008)